{"id":289,"date":"2008-11-10T13:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2008-11-17T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T16:20:54","slug":"wolfram-demonstrations-exceeds-4000-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram Demonstrations exceeds 4000 submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/\">Wolfam Demonstrations project<\/a> has just topped 4000 submissions! I make no secret of the fact that I love the Wolfram Demonstrations project and barely a day goes by where I don&#8217;t mention it to someone.  It&#8217;s got so bad that I am sometimes accused of being a secret employee of Wolfram Research (I&#8217;m not &#8211; just for the record &#8211; but they are free to make me an offer.)  If you are new around here then here is a quick summary of why I like it so much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 4000 demonstrations covering a very wide range of disciplines.<\/li>\n<li>Every demonstration is fully interactive and can be used for <strong>free<\/strong> via the Mathematica player.<\/li>\n<li>Full Mathematica source code for every demonstration is easily available.  So, if you have a full copy of Mathematica then you can modify them for your own purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone who has a fully licensed copy of Mathematica can contribute.  This is a true community project.<\/li>\n<li>The guys and gals at Wolfram vet each and every one of the submissions to ensure that they meet various guidelines.  If you are an author of a demonstration then they give advice on how you might improve your submission.  Sometimes they even supply code that you might not have been able to come up with yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my opinion, the project really is all things to all people.  For example, if you are a teacher then you might use some of the demonstrations to spice up your courses <strong>at no cost<\/strong>.  Remember &#8211; you can download the free Mathematica Player and use all of the demonstrations fully interactively.  There is no need to buy a Mathematica license!  I often hear maths educators say &#8220;The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.&#8221; and they are absolutely right!  The Wolfram Demonstrations project gives you and your students another way to &#8216;do math&#8217;.  Have you just taught some Fourier analysis?  Well then, you might be interested in some <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/ExamplesOfFourierSeries\/\">examples of Fourier Series<\/a> or maybe you would like to discuss (and demonstrate) <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/FourierSoundSynthesis\/\">Fourier sound synthesis<\/a>.  You might decide to demonstrate how the Fourier Transform can be <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/ImageCompressionViaTheFourierTransform\/\">used for image compression<\/a> or maybe show the <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/GibbsPhenomenaFor1DFourierSeries\/\">problems that Fourier series have with discontinuites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If none of the demonstrations do quite what you want then download the source code and modify them.  If you don&#8217;t have a full copy of Mathematica or the required programming skills then <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/feedback\/\">send a request to Wolfram<\/a> and they may be able to help.  Alternatively ask me &#8211; I&#8217;ll help whenever I can and have done so in the past both for readers of this blog and for teachers and researchers at my place of work (The University of Manchester).<\/p>\n<p>If you are learning how to use Mathematica and prefer to learn from examples then the project is perfect.  4000+ real-world examples right at your fingertips.  For free!  I have used Mathematica for over 8 years now and yet I constantly come across new techniques and ideas by reading the source code of other author&#8217;s submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you are not a programmer or a teacher and you just like fiddling around with Mathematics?  Again, the Wolfram Demonstrations project is for you.  You might choose to play a relaxing game of <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/TangramVariation\/\">Tangrams<\/a> or challenge your brain with <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/SudokuGame\/\">Sudoku<\/a>.  Alternatively you be interested in some of the mathematics behind <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/search.html?query=prime\">prime numbers<\/a> or perhaps you want to play around with <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/AddingPolygonalNumbers\/\">polygonal numbers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>So, what would you like to see?  Although there are over 4000 different demonstrations so far, there is still a lot of stuff left to cover.  What is your personal wish list for the Demonstrations project?  If you ask you might get ;)<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this article, feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WalkingRandomly\">click here to subscribe to my RSS Feed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfam Demonstrations project has just topped 4000 submissions! I make no secret of the fact that I love the Wolfram Demonstrations project and barely a day goes by where I don&#8217;t mention it to someone. 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